ABOUT
Silence is Hladnik (music and arrangements) and Benko (music, lyrics, and vocals).
The duet's discography consists of five studio albums: Ma non troppo (1997), Unlike a Virgin (1999), Vain – A Tribute to a Ghost (2004), Musical Accompaniment for the End of the World (2012), and The Vocabulary of Madness (2022). In 2006, the duet released Key Silence, a 2CD anthology and rarities collection.
The duet has scored more than seventy plays and dance performances. Silence's discography includes four theatre scores: Maison des rendez-vous (2003), Veronika (2005), Love Unto Death (2007), and The Passion of the Cold (2008), a double album with music from Tomaž Pandur’s plays Barroco and Caligula. In 2024, Anton Podbevšek Theatre produced Proces(i), the first play written and directed by Silence.
The duet has scored a number of feature-length films, including A Call Girl (Damjan Kozole, 2009), which won Best Film at the 2012 Girona Film Festival, and Family Therapy (Sonja Prosenc, 2024), which won Best Feature Film and Best Original Score at the 27th Festival of Slovenian Film. In 2022, the duet scored Trigrad, an 8-part TV series.
The duet frequently collaborates with Laibach. In 2006, the duet composed and produced Volk, Laibach’s 7th studio album. In 2015, Laibach and Silence became the first Western alternative acts to perform in North Korea. Silence rearranged a number of standards from Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical The Sound of Music for the occasion. The songs were released by Mute Records in 2018.